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Assignment 2: RADIUS Implementation
Due Week 7 and worth 120 points
Suppose you are a Systems Administrator, and you have been tasked with implementing
RADIUS to support authentication, authorization, and accounting in your organizations
Windows network environment.
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
Examine the most significant benefits of RADIUS in organizations and provide management
with at least three (3) problems / concerns that it helps to solve / relieve in the organization’s
computing environment. Provide support for your response.
Suggest the top-three (3) characteristics of Network Policy Server (NPS) in Windows Server
2012 that you believe make it a suitable option for implementing RADIUS in the organization’s
environment. Provide support for your response.
Decide whether you would consider utilizing RADIUS templates. Justify your decision based on
what you believe to be the most significant benefits offered to or restrictions created for
systems administrators.
Propose whether you would consider, with no other variables or restrictions, utilizing
password- or certificate-based methods for authentication. Substantiate your selection with
appropriate reasoning.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment.Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites
do not qualify as quality resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: